Alfred's been pretty good Mac-side.
Shame that Synapse & near as I last saw Gnome Do seem to have also died off Linux-side.
It's a useful product space.
http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
Pipe a list of things into it, it'll graphically prompt the user for a specific thing, and then it'll print that thing to stdout. I use it to switch to named workspaces and to launch programs.
Anyways, yeah, dmenu and dwm just got it right. (Though I must admit I flirt with wmii these days). Every -nix'er owes it to him/herself to put 'exec dwm' into their .xinitrc for a few months. This analogy won't do it justice - but - the way your mind expands shifting over is comparable to the development mentality shift one gets when moving from procedural C to LISP or Smalltalk.
Spotlight is way better for file searching though and its integrations are really good, but Alfred workflows are definitely worth looking into.
If the dev is here I have a question/bug report: Every time I reboot my machine, there is a error dialog (with a huge stack trace) that I have to dismiss. I see from the stack trace that it complains about not finding certain applications. I have realized that these applications were on my system when I first installed Wox, but since uninstalled.
Thanks for making this utility though. Makes my life on Windows 7 a bit easier.
If you still get the error could you please report the issue here: https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox/issues/
What purpose does it serve in Windows 10? Every feature and voice recognition seems to be part of the basic Win10 search (although you need to tweak it a bit to get local content search mixed in with app launches; I usually turn that off on spotlight).
Part of the reason I really like Win10 is that it has something that has parity with these older tools. Indeed, Win10 is rightfully referred to as a search-driven OS. Most help articles refer to searching from the top level box into other apps, that can trivially publish search targets.
It is one of the typical missing features that let me wonder how windows people can even talk about productivity. Kudos.
